Hi, I have found in /usr/include/time.h that timezone is defined as function with a return value type of char *. This seems to be incompatible with some unix implementations like linux and irix which defines timezone as time_t (IRIX) or long int (linux). Can anybody tell me the reason for this ? Ralf Habacker -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/